Cable backs county’s engineering future

Vince Cable was in Burnley yesterday to officially launch the £50m Burnley Bridge Business Park.

He said: “As we put that in place it means that the supplier companies, the tier ones the tiers twos and so on that are around here will have a real future and I think we are already beginning to see this happening.

“We’ve got a shortage of women in engineering in Britain, amongst other things, so it’s actually getting the message through the school system as well as higher age groups that there is a real future in the kind of companies that will be established here.”

Mr Cable said: “It’s a great pleasure to be at the fulfilment of a vision that was being shared by developers, the council, the local enterprise partnership, the local MP and others.”

“When I first came here it didn’t have a positive reputation and last year it was regarded as the most enterprising town in Britain. “Unemployment is well below the national average now and lots of really positive things are happening, particularly in the rediscovery of the manufacturing industry.”